Christy Fisher, founder Phinney RidGe Yoga

Christy is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, a member of KYTA (Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association), and a practitioner of Kripalu for over 18 years. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, a dancer, a choreographer, and brings over 37 years of movement training to her classes. Christy originally came to yoga seeking recuperation from the physical stresses of being a professional modern dancer and has since realized the deeper transformational benefits. She believes that anyone can benefit from yoga and enjoys teaching people of all ages and backgrounds. Christy specializes in adapting practices to meet individual needs. Her approach is gentle yet deep where practitioners are encouraged to work at their own pace. She has taught classes to people with MS through the National MS Society Washington Chapter for the last 6 years. She also teaches through Cancer Life Line in Seattle and for the Washington State Traumatic Brain Injury Association. Last summer Christy had the honor of providing yoga sessions for Pema Chodron’s conference “No Time to Loose” at University of Washington’s Meany Hall.

"Christy continually amazes me with the wisdom of her teaching style. She empowers students to respect and listen to their bodies to guide them to connect to their own wisdom. Christy is a masterful teacher with a seemingly limitless and often subtle yoga vocabulary. In addition, she has a great sense of humor and a compassionate heart. I highly recommend studying with her."

----Lynne Conrad Marvet, Co-Director, Nalanda West Study and Meditation Center

Deirdre Wilcox – B.A., RYT, LMP, RC, CAPP

Deirdre is trained in the Viniyoga lineage and brings 18 years of bodywork, movement and fitness experience to her teaching. She is a certified Aston-Patterning Practioner, massage therapist, registered counselor and registered yoga teacher. Her foundation is the synthesis of several areas of interest, teachers and trainings, and reflects her belief that there is room for all paths and styles. She encourages mindfulness and conscious choice as a practice within the practice, and values the liberal use of compassion and humor in her classes while creating a peaceful and supportive environment. To learn more visit: www.thehappyyogi.org.

Linda Heuertz

Linda is a certified Kripalu yoga teacher and a member of KYTA (Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association). Yoga has been a part of Linda’s life since she took her first class 30 years ago. From there she found herself repeatedly drawn to it, until about eight years ago when an injury (and work on a doctorate) lead her to more fully embrace its healing and life enhancing powers. When she became a yoga teacher a few years later, she knew she had followed her heart home. Linda currently teaches yoga in Ballard for people living with MS and recently taught yoga to women recovering from breast cancer (as part of a study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). In her classes Linda strives to create a comfortable environment in which students of all ages and physical conditions can improve their strength, flexibility, and balance, and can steady and quiet their minds. Emphasis is placed on the breath, self-acceptance, and honoring individual needs.

Suzette Birrell

Suzette is a registered Viniyoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She began teaching yoga after leaving the corporate world for a more balanced lifestyle. Suzette enjoys bringing a sense of nurturing to her students in a safe and gentle environment. Along with specializing in Pre- and Post Natal yoga, she has spent the last 4 months assisting and teaching a yoga class for people with MS in Ballard sponsored by the National MS Society. Suzette’s love of the life around her is reflected in her teaching, in her abundant garden and her work as a garden coach. Suzette and her husband, Jim, have lived and gardened in the Greenwood area for 35 years.

 

 

Mary Marmorstone

Mary has been a devoted student of yoga for 8 years and has been teaching for the past six years. Mary has used yoga as a way to heal and nurture her own body after 12 years of competitive gymnastics. Mary studied Hatha Yoga and Meditation from the Shoshoni Yoga Ashram outside of Nedarland Colorado. She has a degree in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Exercise Science, and is a Certified Clinical Exercise Specialist through the American College of Sports Medicine. She has offered therapeutic yoga in settings such as cardiac rehab, physical therapy, wellness studios, and assisted living facilities. Mary loves combining her passion for yoga and expertise in exercise physiology to provide healing guidance to people in physical recovery and in need of a more balanced body, mind and spirit.

 

Melanie Reed

Melanie is a registered Viniyoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She started a yoga practice in 2004 because of chronic sacrum and low back issues and fell in love with its invitation to greater mindfulness. She is also a senior practitioner of the Diamond Approach (since 1991) whose primary practices are inquiry and various forms of meditation. The intentional movements of yoga and simple breath practices have proved to be essential supports for the practice of meditation and living a conscious life.

Melanie uses a contemplative approach to yoga practice that can produce extraordinary physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual transformation, especially over time. Using the breath-movement connection, her primary focus is always on inner experience grounded in the present moment.

 

Alene Moroni

Alene is a certified yoga instructor in the Viniyoga lineage. Seeking balance to other fitness pursuits, she took her first yoga class in 2003. She quickly found that the practice brought a sense of balance and healing to her life. Alene loves to share that with others, believing that consistently attending to the link between breath and movement can help one meet almost any challenge.